Daily Practice Sheet 14 December 2020

  • December 14, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPS
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Daily Prelims Topic

  • Insurance Information Bureau/IRDAI
  • Gupkar Declaration
  • Inter-state Migrant Workmen Act
  • National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai)
  • Copyrights
  • PoushMela
  • LiDAR
  • Survey of India
  • Central Administrative Tribunal
  • Chang’e 5 Lunar Probe
  • IFSCA
  • Gallium Nitride
  • Rare mystica swamp tree frog
  • ICMR study

Daily Mapping

  • Bahrain
  • Kaziranga national park

Daily Facts

Nutrition

  • NFHS (2019-20): Several states have either witnessed meagre improvements or sustained reversals on child (under5 years of age) malnutrition parameters such as child stunting; child wasting; share of children underweight and child mortality rate. For example: Bihar saw proportion of stunted child under 5 years at 42.9% (2015-16: 48.3%;), J&K saw it at 26.9% (2015-16 – 26.9%); Kerala saw it at 23.4% (Earlier 19.7%)
  • NFHS-5 and NFHS-4 are about five years apart but there is very little progress in many states. In Maharashtra, the under-5 mortality rate is basically the same in NFHS-4 and 5, and in Bihar, it reduced by just 3% over five years

Health Sector:

  • India has 1.7 nurse per 1,000 population.

Auto sector

  • Insurance Information Bureau of India report: As of March 2019, 57% of vehicles on road were uninsured.
  • India sells more than20 million vehicles a year making it one of the biggest auto markets.

Digital Divide

  • On an average, less than 3 out of10 women in rural India and 4 out of 10 women in urban India ever used the Internet, according to the NFHS-5.
  • Only an average of 42.6 per cent of women ever used the Internet as against an average of 62.16 percent among the men (56.81% and 33.94% in urban and rural areas for women – Men in urban areas and rural areas using internet: 73.76 and 55.6 %)

Daily Mains Mantra

NEWSPAPER

GS 1: Society

  1. Legal and Constitutional frameworks had limited success in addressing patriarchy in India. Examine this statement through example and suggest measures. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 1: Geography

  1. Analyze the geological and environmental vulnerability of building dams in the Himalayas. [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 2: Polity

  1. Discuss constitutional and legal provision for All-India Services and impact it has on the Indian federalism. [Reference: Indian Express]

GS 2: Governance

  1. Examine the need and challenges of database of the migrants and unorganised sector as the first step in a reformed social security architecture post Covid-19 economy. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Economy

  1. Discuss the structural factors behind the agrarian crisis? Will the new farm bills resolve these structural factors? [Reference: The Hindu]

GS 3: Environment

  1. Worldwide, the demand for energy has risen significantly and quickly, leading to serious impacts on environmental sustainability and hindering global efforts to mitigate climate change. In this context do an Environment Impact Assessment of the hydroelectric projects in Himalayas.
  2. Elluru “mystery illness” and Vishakhapatnam gas leak once gain raise questions about adequacy of regulatory framework for the chemicals use. Examine. [Reference: Financial Express]

GS 3: Security

  1. Work from Home culture and digitization at rapid pace have been a positive development in the last 6 months, but it has also given rise to threat of cyber security. Comment. [Reference: Indian Express]
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